More Tony Allen

Nine times out of ten I am far more interested in interesting human stories than human-interest stories. There is a difference. Anything written about Ron Artest falls into the former while Mark Murphy’s profile of Tony Allen is clearly the latter. Despite my prejudice, I liked reading up on Allen’s background. And given the Celtics decision to pick up his option one can assume that his legal problems will get worked out. If not his mother’s take, “I’m just so thrilled, because statistically, such a high percentage of African-American men are incarcerated. And Tony isn’t one of those statistics” will be more depressing than anything.